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Good buddy @JakeLoosemore ended up meeting this one in Nashville..and brought it back in a suitcase. Typical story.
00:00 intro and cheers Truefire
00:12 I’d heard whispers of Nachocasters…
00:58 4 hour sleep Blues
5:15 “relic” taken to the extreme – this actually feels old
5:35 not just a partscaster with a relic….
6:30 the fretboard wear is nice and realistic
6:53 not just chips etc – old looking instrument
7:04 more importantly, it’s light and amazing playing
7:25 the STAR of the show
9:50 that bridge pickup sings
10:40 “that’s expensive”
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He charges $6000 or $7,000 for a cosmetic paint job. Not interested. I can get all the sounds from a squire. You know it's really getting bad in the market where people think they have some sort of great guitar like this guy is talking about and ultimately if you didn't see what it looked like he wouldn't be interested. So there you have it. Same thing goes with danocaster You guys want to pay $7,000 or $5,000 for a paint job. You go right ahead, but having played a couple of nacho guitars I was like who gives a f*** it absolutely was an average guitar. The fret work was so average. I considered a fret job if I were to buy it from the guy who was trying to sell it. So you can tell the world how great this guitar is but you're not fooling me
There is nothing like a Tele!!!
I had fender make me a custom shop double esquire. 6 pounds and amazing
sticking with my KLine Truxton torrified pine body…..simply outstanding.
What do you call a Tele that’s not yours?
Nachocaster
Aight imma head out
This is probably the best tone that jnc has featured on the channel. yes tone is in the hands but i think this is the best tone that has ever come from johns hands!
Hi John, love your work – thank you. I am lucky enough to own one of these… was never a Tele guy before but mine continues to thrill me every time I play it. It’s worthy to note that nacho also does very lightly aged work as well… In reading several of your viewers comments, the aging process is obviously not for everybody. I can tell you from firsthand experience, I tried three of these prior to purchasing mine and the sustain, feel in tone of my guitar is an experience I’ve not shared with any other Guitar.
Sounds great but neck with adjustment rod at the bottom should be outlawed
Can’t wait for mine to come in January
I'm currently handling the disposition of a collection of a recently deceased friend. He got his Nacho Blackguard earlier this year, after quite a wait and all the rigamarole of joining the club etc. It really is a fantastic piece of luthiery, one of those that you just do not want to stop exploring. It's an entirely different "value" scale when you get to this level of care and craft.
John, just to correct you on that point about Fender. The whole purpose of master built custom shop is that the guitar is built from scratch by one single master builder. They also make ‘team built’ guitars which, as the name suggests, are built by a team of custom shop builders at the factory.
To speculate that they are just parts casters with special treatment would be a massive insult to some of the talented master builders at Fender, also including Jackson and Charvel etc.
Awesome take on little blue. The nacho sounded just like brandi carlile 😅
Just bought a Custom Shop 52. Its Divine
Little Blue! Beautiful. Collier is such an inspiring soul!
What is his signal chain in all his recent videos they’ve been so smooth and clear. This one and the Japanese strat. But mainly this one?
Good old Jake the mate.. maybe we'll meet him one day!?
Love that Danny Boy. Sensatonal.
So good that artisans in the guitar's birthplace (i.e, Spain) are making some of the very best in the world in the very same place.
Wow, wasn't ready for John covering Little Blue <3
What pickups are in it? What size frets are on it? They look quite jumbo.
I play a Kelton Swade Tele which is my main guitar and the one I use everyday on the ship. It is based on the exact same idea as the Nachocaster and is a complete joy to play. Kelton was a builder in Nashville, he passed during Covid. It is very similar to this guitar but with a Bigsby. Something about these “relic” designs that make it a joy to play and somehow they always have the best sounding pickups.
I'll probably never afford a Nachocaster but I'm lucky enough to own a copy of Nacho's book The Blackguard. The finest guitar porn ever published!
at this point I think you are actually better than John Mayer…..just amazing
These are the TOP of the boutique Tele builds out there? I have never played one, but every time I have heard them they sound amazing. The relic job is really right, and they have vibe.
Never heard or seen a Yubetuber have anything bad to say?
7-8k?! Yikes.
Lovely rendition of little blue !
Neck Pickup sounds amazing for a Telecaster almost like Eric Johnsons tone 😀
That sounds absolutely amazing. The neck pickup is clear as a bell.
I like Nachos 😍
Your friend Jake certainely has a bunch of nice guitars ! 🙂 Cheers John
Absolutely wonderful playing 🤩👏
I have a nacho, and yes they are fien sounding instruments. I honestly lile them betterbthan custom shop. Thatbsaid, I own a GVCG, who somehow startednit all 20 years ago. On par with my nacho
Wear on a real oldie likely to have been caused by strumming over the end of neck…..used to be common when people played chords behind songs. Yes guitars can do that too.
Sounds absolutely extraordinary.
Great rendition of “Danny Boy”!
Your buddy Jake isn't short of a few bob
Nice guitar, but You're an amazing talent!! You could play anything and it would sound heavenly!!
Great looking and sounding Telecaster, that hymn you played at the end, amazing sound and tone,
Sounds amazing!
Love the little blue Jacob collier inspiration for the beginning jam 😊
I need that Danny boy arrangement 😮
Totally overpriced and insanely overhyped instrument. It's made worse than most Chinese copies—just look at the neck joint at 0:20. I believe it could be worth around $2,000, maybe $3,000 for a relic stuff, but $7,000+ is complete insanity for this level of mediocre quality. Still thanks for the review
It’s a nice sounding guitar, but a quick look on Reverb reveals that they cost over $10,000. Sorry but that beautiful, clear bell-like tone 100% just comes down to good pickups, and those pickups don’t cost thousands of dollars to make. I don’t think any guitar should cost over ten grand, let alone a Telecaster or Telecaster style guitar. They are a plain workhorse instrument design. And this is coming from someone who absolutely loves Telecasters. If you took those pickups and put them in a DIY Telecaster kit you could basically have this guitar for a couple of hundred dollars plus whatever those pickups cost.
I bought one last year, took a while to get there but it was worth it. Best Tele ever. The relicing is also much nicer and more believable than a masterbuilt Fender Tele
Is that backing track available somewhere? Sounds great!
My buddy had one of these for sale at the Philly Guitar Show this past November (around $6k). He also had a VERY NICE original 1951 Nocaster at the show (around $150K). The Nacho did seem to respond like an old guitar, that is until I played the '51 side by side.
Nice take on "Danny Boy" there JC! Have you Irish roots 🙂 ?
Look closely folks, that much money for a guitar which in the upper register has a high E string that almost rides off the edge of the neck. 😐